In his diaries Kenneth Williams lamented this, and criticised several of the movies despite his declared fondness for the series as a whole. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies, there are pastiches of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Carry On Henry's pre-production title was "Anne of a Thousand Lays" – and was as the title suggested; a parody of the Richard Burton film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). Not the funniest but still very funny in parts and a far bigger laugh than the more ambitious efforts of the Taylor- Burton- Harrison team" was the Daily Mail's response to Carry On Cleo [46] on its general release in November 1964. Peter Rogers was not keen on either film idea as he was worried that a potential disaster involving either an aeroplane or a fire could happen while the film was on general release. Two Brits - inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter - are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome.By doing so I actually came across the original creator of the caricatures that are featured in the 'Best of British' section of the magazines. Carry On at Your Convenience was known as Carry On Round the Bend outside the United Kingdom and was the first box-office loss of the series. The films are spoofs of James Bond, Hollywood epic Cleopatra, American Westerns, and Hammer horror films, respectively. Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more. The film's composer Eric Rogers makes his second on-screen appearance as the trumpet player during the hospital dance sequence.

Was only the later films like England and Emmanuelle where you got nudity but that was because by then they were competing at the cinema with those afore mentioned sex comedies so they felt they needed the tits and arse. Owing to the increased sexual nature of the film it was given a 'AA' certificate in the UK, which excluded anyone under the age of 14. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Joan Sims was originally asked to play the part of "Matron" after her earlier success playing a similar part in Doctor in Clover, but the part eventually went to Hattie Jacques.

Rogers and Thomas were responsible for all 31 films, usually on time and to a strict budget, and often employed the same crew — some of whom were also regulars on the James Bond series, such as Peter Lamont, Alan Hume, and Anthony Waye. The Carry On film series has had numerous individual releases on VHS, and a number of VHSs were released in an eighteen VHS box-set on 1 September 2003. The remainder of the series developed with increased use of the British comic traditions of music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Since 2013, StudioCanal has released a number of the Carry On films on Blu-ray, beginning with Carry On Screaming! A new generation of comedy actors were cast, including Rik Mayall, Keith Allen, Alexei Sayle and Julian Clary.